Category: North America

These days it seems like everyone is in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction. Even compared to the Karen people, who live under the oppressive thumb of the Burmese government while surviving in an unforgiving jungle, I have rarely come across people more profoundly dissatisfied with their lives as Americans.  In fact, the Karen are among […]

“The Wounded Warrior Fund.” Sounds legitimate, right? It sounds like an offshoot of the Wounded Warrior Project, maybe another branch of theirs that takes donations, or has a particular function separate from the rest of the organization. Right? Think again. Four Indiana residents have been charged with 227 counts of wire fraud, as well as […]

Imagine that you work somewhere within the VA or the DOD. You notice that, say, your boss is continuously contracting out landscaping duties to his wife’s landscaping company, though the landscaping never seems to get done. Hundreds of thousands of VA dollars are getting siphoned into this man’s family bank account, and no one is […]

Six U.S. Army soldiers were caught in an avalanche on Wednesday at the Army Mountain Warfare School near Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont. According to a statement released on the Vermont National Guard’s Facebook page, none of the soldiers sustained life threatening injuries. Five of the soldiers have been hospitalized, however, with the sixth able to return […]

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet went down off the coast of Key West Florida on Wednesday afternoon. Both the pilot and weapons officer were recovered by search and rescue teams, but died soon thereafter. Details have been sparse through official channels, but social media posts from witnesses as well as statements provided to local […]

During a Q&A held at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas on Sunday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk discussed the future of his space faring business, and in particular, his plans for a fleet of interplanetary ships with a course set for Mars. Of course, the man hailed by many as a visionary, wanted to be […]

“I looked into his eyes and I saw the eyes of a killer.” I’m sure you’ve heard some variation of this line in the past. What do “killer eyes” look like? Is there some indicator of soullessness? Is there some look on a man’s face or some mannerism that signals his thirst for blood? Having […]

A civilian Eurocopter AS350 helicopter carrying six people went down in the East River in New York City on Sunday night. Only the pilot survived. The helicopter belonged to Liberty Helicopters, a company based in New York City that specializes in aerial tours and contracting for photography. According to a press statement, the five passengers […]

The Los Angeles Veterans Affairs facility in West L.A. has been embroiled in controversy for many years. This is the same facility that leased out their property to privately owned businesses, which wound up in a major lawsuit. They were building an amphitheater, and had been leasing land to Twentieth Century Fox Television, as well […]

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may have been the subject of more postulation than any other military aircraft in history. After years of cost overruns, delays, and issues, the fighter platform that America has long touted as the most advanced on the planet is finally nearing a stage when its comparisons to tried and true […]

Navy fighter pilots found themselves in a life threatening situation over America’s Pacific Northwest last month, as the cabin pressure and air temperature systems failed in their EA-18G Growler. The two-man crew from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine were cruising at approximately 25,000 feet some 60 miles south of Seattle Washington at the time of […]

Long before Jason Mamoa reinvented Aquaman as a gruff, tatted up badass, many of us can remember a day when he was the lamest member of the Justice League. The blonde haired pretty boy was capable of communicating with fish – often calling upon their help to foil water based crime or to defend his […]